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Hans Hoffmann is EBU Senior Manager and head of unit on media fundamentals and production technologies in the EBU Technology and Innovation department. He has been for 9 years with the Institut fuer Rundfunktechnik (IRT) as research staff in new Television production technologies department until moving to the EBU in 2000.
In the EBU he has been leading many activities on media integration, production technologies, video codec evaluations, he established the EBU HDTV testing lab, and work with EBU Members on IT based digital workflows and recently UHDTV.
He has been author of many EBU Technical documents; IEEE papers and is a standing speaker and contributor to international conferences. Hans is a fellow of the SMPTE and a member of the SID and FKT and IEEE and was the SMPTE Engineering Vice President from 2011-13.
Chairman ITU-R WP 6C
Andy Quested started working as a BBC Technical Assistant in 1978 becoming a video-tape editor in 1985 where he worked on many comedy, children’s and documentary series, editing all episodes of “Keeping Up Appearances”! He also worked on the introducing of non-linear editing, stereo and widescreen production.
In 1998 Andy moved to a new BBC technology department working on the BBC’s first HD programmes including Planet Earth I and the first UHD programme, Planet Earth II.
Currently he is technical lead for the UK’s Digital Production Partnerships AS-11 format and leads the EBU Production Strategic Group which looks at all areas of content production for EBU members. He is also an active member of SMPTE, becoming a Fellow in 2014 for work relating to standards and was part of the SMPTE Technical Specifications initiative in 2018.
Andy has carried out work In ITU-R Working Party 6C as a Rapporteur in several study areas including 3DTV, the Interoperable Mastering Formant for the Global Platform and studies into Quality of Experience. Andy has also chaired several Rapporteur Groups including the group that developed the HDR Recommendation until 2015 when he became chair of Working Party 6C itself where he initiated new areas of study on Advanced Immersive Audio Visual Systems and Artificial Intelligence in content production and international programme exchange.
Drop box
Andy Wilson has over 17 years of working on red button interactive television services, broadcast innovation, early BBC iPlayer, product management and digital rights for the BBC, Andy joined Dropbox from leading the growth and technical delivery of the Digital Production Partnership, where he lead the development of a new international format for exchanging video content and commercials.
Andy’s previous BBC work included the migration of Engineering Teams to support new technologies and studios in MediaCity UK, BBC New Broadcasting House, UHD experimental broadcasts with BBC R&D for the 2014 World Cup and supporting the 2012 London Olympics. He was also Head of Delivery for BBC micro:bit, ensuring 1 million children across the UK discovered coding through a new computing device to help grow their engineering and digital skills. This has scaled to over 4 million BBC micro:bits being deployed globally. Andy led collaboration between 54 partners, to develop and deliver the BBC’s most ambitious education and technology initiative in 30 years.
Andy now leads Media for Dropbox, working across Product, Partnerships, Sales and Marketing.
David Wood has been an active participant in the ITU-R since 1981, and chaired working groups on digital television, high definition television, ultra high definition television, and quality evaluation methodology. He was educated at Southampton University in the UK, the Popov Institute in the Ukraine, and the Harvard Business School in the US.
He currently participates in Working Party 6C and their work on Advanced Sound Systems.
